Language Quotes
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.
We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.
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[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah.
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
